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This collection consists of video material on various topics relating to the struggle of South Africa. These productions were put together by the apartheid government for the South African constituency and includes Die Bou van die Nasie (The Building of a Nation) and interviews with Nelson Mandela before his release from Pollsmoor Prison. The Austrian Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM) began in 1977 after the 1976 Soweto uprisings. It started as a small group of people who lobbied the Austrian public and government into taking an active stand against apartheid. Over the years the grouping was able to grow and to mobilise the Austrian public in supporting some of the campaigns against the apartheid regime, such as the boycott of South African products. The AAM was not aligned to any political party in Austria and thus had the support of all the political parties. This made it into an effective lobby group, especially in the ... These portraits portray the African National Congress (ANC) President-Generals, including John Dube, Dr Moroka, Chief Albert Luthuli, O.R. Tambo, Josiah Gumede, Pixley Ka- Seme and Nelson Mandela, and painted in 1993. These portraits were commissioned by the Film Resource Unit for the public launch of \"Ulibambe Lingashoni - Hold up the Sun\", a five part video documentary series on the ANC and popular power. The artists are from J V Graphix. From 1912 until then the ANC had inaugurated ten presidents. However, only nine were painted and only eight are found in this collection. These papers were collected by Dale McKinley, who in 1994 became the chairperson of the Johannesburg Central Branch (JCB) of the South African Communist Party (SACP). He also became the new chairperson of the Greater Johannesburg District Branch from 1996-1998 and was elected to the Provincial Executive Committee (PEC) of the party in Gauteng Province in 1998. In early 2000 he resigned from his position as a PEC member and soon after, resigned as an employee of the party. In October 2000 he was expelled from the SACP. Lucia Raadschelders is a Dutch national who worked at the Anti-Apartheids Beweging Nederland (AABN/ Dutch Anti Apartheid Movement) from 1979 to 1985. After resigning from the Dutch AAM she was recruited to work for the African National Congress (ANC) in Swaziland to run a safe house. She lived in Swaziland from 1986 until she had to to return to the Netherlands in mid-1988. She was then recruited to work with the ANC in Zambia as part of Operation Vula from 1988-1992. The South African Prisoners' Organisation for Human Rights (SAPOHR) was formed in Modderbee Prison in 1988 by political and other prisoners. A National Office was opened in 1992. SAPOHR's mission statement is as follows: To address the legacy of the apartheid criminal justice and prison systems and contribute to a culture of human rights and social justice in a non-racial, non-sexist democratic South Africa. Its main functions are to act as a watchdog of the prison services, to be a representative and a voice of prisoners, to provide para-legal services to prisoners, to address human rights ... The South African Youth Congress (SAYCO), launched in 1987 at the height of the State of Emergency, brought together the various youth organisations that had grown across the country. It became an important affiliate of the United Democratic Front (UDF). After the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) in 1990 SAYCO immediately began the process of re-establishing the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and the ANC Youth Section. SAYCO dissolved once the ANCYL was established.
The collection includes mission statements of a few of the service organisations that participated in the struggle against apartheid, together with official and unofficial publications by the International and Defence Aid Fund (IDAF). Politically active in the 1970s whilst a student at Wits University, Emilia Potenza joined the Wits-based organisation Catholic Society (Cathsoc) in 1977, and became involved in political campaigns such as "Free Mandela", housing and removal issues and providing support to pressure groups and political prisoners. In 1980 she joined the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA) and campaigned for them on a national level. When NEUSA joined ranks with the newly formed South African Teachers Union in the early 1990s Potenza shifted her focus towards assistance in the formation of a Barbara Hogan joined the African National Congress (ANC) shortly after the 1976 Uprisings. Her responsibilities in the then underground movement were to mobilise the white political left, participation in public political campaigning and supplying the ANC underground in Botswana with information about trade union and community activity in South Africa. She was detained in 1982, and after being interrogated, ill-treated and held in solitary confinement for a year, she was found guilty of high treason and sentenced to 10 years in jail. She was released in 1990 and has continued to play a ... |
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